SamuelAdams

> We are creating young people that have a very limited attention span, have no incentive to think about things, and have very pleasing metrics on the dora scale. When asked what their code is doing, they just don’t know. They can’t event explain the choices they made.

This has nothing to do with AI, and everything to do with a bad hire. If the developer is that bad with code, how did they get hired in the first place? If AI is making them lazier, and they refuse to improve, maybe they ought to be replaced by a better developer?

That more than likely because after 15 years at Google, you’re probably financially well off enough to retire and do whatever you want.

I was hoping for more content on AR and the next phase of the Apple Vision Pro. Is the Apple Vision Pro considered a failure at this point?

Nonetheless, it looks like this new legislation is expanding the previous 2019 legislation:

> This announcement fulfills the promise made by the governor and the New Mexico Legislature when they created the Early Childhood Education and Care Department in 2019. Since then, New Mexico has expanded access to no-cost child care to families with incomes at or below 400% of the federal poverty level, reducing financial strain on tens of thousands of families.

> With Monday’s announcement *universal child care will be extended to every family in the state, regardless of income.* This amounts to an average annual family savings of $12,000 per child.

(emphasis added)

Is there a mandated state ratio of workers to children? In Michigan, by law, it is 1:4.

It is great to offer free childcare to all citizens, but if those childcare facilities are inadequately resourced the quality of care will decline.

Assuming you are in the States, it would be cheaper to enroll in one course a year and use the universities library system to get the papers you need.

What always bothered me about those though is their terribly clunky UI, dozens of redirects, weird auth flows, and more.

I am speculating, but I think the real motive for cancelling renewables is to appeal to coal counties in the USA.

Coal is in a scary place right now in the US, see this as an example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1mmqwd3/i_live_in...

Basically coal is less profitable and more expensive in places that have always been coal counties. The only thing to do in these areas is mine coal, so the concern is that entire regions will be rendered worthless if coal collapses.

Which means local residents cannot sell their homes without taking significant losses, and they probably lose their jobs in coal, which manifests into a poverty trap for the entire town.

And there are hundreds of these towns all through Appalachia.

So renewable energy will always be a political issue over the next 50 years, because entire towns and regions depend on its political outcome.

I was also confused. In our organization all PR’s must always be reviewed by a knowledgeable human. It does not matter if it was all LLM generated or written by a person.

If insecure code makes it past that then there are bigger issues - why did no one catch this, is the team understanding the tech stack well enough, and did security scanning / tooling fall short, and if so how can that be improved?

In my experience enterprises do not want to pay for excellent software, simply because it is expensive. I would love to work on software that was:

- in more than two AWS regions

- required screen reader / disability support

- required multi-language support

- required multi-cloud

- actually needed a big Hadoop cluster - most enterprise data processing can be done on a MacBook Pro M4.

> Kodak aims to conjure up cash by ceasing payments for its retirement pension plan

I have always wondered, what happens to a pension plan when the company files for bankruptcy? What happens if the lump sum payment is not enough for retirees? Are they financially screwed until they die?

What is the advantage of using this over existing OSS solutions?

The only way I’ve ever seen engineers care about PR’s is if the software or product is tied directly to their paycheck. If uptime or bugs directly impact a quarterly bonus, or result in a layoff / getting fired, they spend a lot more time reviewing PR’s. Furthermore, the work and its estimate is expanded to include enough time for the team to thoroughly review the change.

Unless someone is getting fired for bad code the “lgtm” culture will never die.

The cited article is a better source, and it was written a month ago. I am not sure why this is making the rounds now.

They cite 99.9%, and “reduce the risk”, not 100% like this sub article claims.

https://www.gilead.com/news/news-details/2025/yeztugo-lenaca...

Ideally the git history provides the “why was this test written”, however if you have one Jira card tied to 500+ AI generated tests, it’s not terribly helpful.

It also makes the code easier to read, and that is what our org optimizes for, all else being equal. Code is read 10x more than it is modified, so if you can make it a little quicker to understand it’s generally recommended.

Well, allegedly Apple could have designed, advised and tested the solution, and if a contractor builds it, then the statement is technically correct.

Apple (and many other organizations) contracts work out for liability reasons, this is not the first instance of it.

Also note the language - specifically a “back door” or “master key”. If you call it something else, literally anything else, the statement holds up.

Yes but also it is one of the most common programming questions for non-FAANG companies. Are grads not preparing for interviews? It is one google search to Jeff Atwood’s blog.

Or, alternatively, the crop of current grads education is abysmal compared to past graduates, and companies are reluctant to hire them.

This is the first graduate class since Covid. Pivoting to online learning quickly resulted in worse learning outcomes for k-12 and college as well.

Companies are seeing a decline in base-level skills typically expected from previous classes of new graduates. They can either hire now and pay the cost of training for possibly 1-2 years to get them to an appropriate level, or hire no one and instead hire from the classes of 2026 and 2027, assuming those students improve from the post-Covid education system.

And it assumes you do not have twins or triplets.

As a new parent, it’s money. Daycare costs $400 USD per week in my area, from 7am-6pm, 5 days a week.

So for one child that is roughly 20,000 USD annually.

Once you hit the 3-5 kid mark, it usually does not make sense for the spouse to work, unless they are earning well above 6 figures.

So then you’re going down to one income supporting a family of 3-5. That’s risky for a variety of reasons.

If you want actual actions congress can take:

1. Expand limits on the dependent HSA account to allow more than 5,000 annually. Daycare alone is much more than 5,000 USD, it seems making that completely tax free will help.

2. Subsidize the entire cost of daycare. This will never happen but by golly it will work.

At a macro level, killed games are a good thing for gaming companies. It creates a shortage of playable games so that new games sell and continue to make money.

The biggest competitor to the video game industry is movies (Netflix, Disney plus, etc) and past games.

Think about it - what does the gaming industry look like 100 years from today? If players can play thousands of high quality games for free, why bother paying for a new game?

I suppose the book industry has the same problem, maybe there are some parallels to study from that.

You don’t. However, that risk is mitigated with a simple, easy to use return policy, where you actually get your cash back (not airline vouchers or points or made-up things to keep you in the ecosystem).

I’ve started resorting to the “x bought this month” metric instead. If a product works for thousands of people and they continue to buy 500+ units a month, clearly it is a good option.

If it does end up being a bad buy, Amazon typically has a 30 day return policy for most items. Use that and get something else.

The WSJ article you reference results in a 404.

I tried Wifi7 at my home, but most of the benefits are lost when physical walls are in the way. Therefore I think WiFi 7 is more for commercial applications.

TSA can check your heart rate / breathing rate elevating during your walk through security.

Casinos can see your heart spike before placing a bet. If the system is digital maybe that can be synced to always deal a loss hand.

The risk is simple enough. GitHub Enterprise allows admins to configure a list of actions to allow or deny. Ideally these actions are published in the GitHub Marketplace.

The idea is that the organization does not trust these third-parties, therefore they disable their access.

However this solution bypasses those lists by cloning open-source actions directly into the runner. At that point it’s just running code, no different from if the maintainers wrote a complex action themselves.

I wonder if this will dramatically improve gaming on a Mac? Valve has been making games more reliable due to Steam Deck, and gaming on Linux is getting better every year.

Could games be run inside a virtual Linux environment, rather than Apple’s Metal or similar tool?

This would also help game developers - now they only need to build for Windows, Linux, and consoles.

Surprised no one mentioned this, but voice dictation is pretty good in both Windows and MacOS. Would it be possible to use a combination of one hand and voice dictation, AI text prediction (autocomplete), etc?

Every system has problems. The better question is: what is the acceptable threshold?

For an example Medicare and Medicade had a fraud rate of 7.66%. Yes, that is a lot of billions, and there is room for improvement, but that doesn’t mean the entire system is failing: 93% of cases are being covered as intended.

The same could be said with these models. If the spoilage rate is 10%, does that mean the whole system is bad? Or is it at a tolerable threshold?

[1]: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/fiscal-year-2024-im...

Alright sorry if this is dumb but how does the OP know about all this?